Posted by Ronan on Oct 20, 2006 in Uncategorized | 0 comments
This has been bugging me for a while.. active directory and thunderbird in linux. For whatever reason ITD decided to split the active directory server and staff exchange server as two separate points of failure. Furthermore the staffexchange is on the 136 domain and the AD is on the 10.220 domain. why? dunno. perhaps security and ease of access from external sites.
anyhooos to get the nifty address book working in TB use the following setting.. where of course you will use your username instead of mine. Also important is to ul and campus in lower case in the bind DN box. leave the port to 389 – it won’t work on the 3268 port like some of the googled solutions I found. For reference I got ldp.exe from the windows xp server service tool (free) and found the AD server, logged in and found the bind DN / port settings.
When you search you will be prompted for a password. enter your UL/STAFF password and away you go.
